{"id":4536,"date":"2026-04-05T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:40:06","slug":"flurry-of-late-runs-pushes-chicago-over-houston-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4536","title":{"rendered":"Flurry of Late Runs Pushes Chicago Over Houston 6-5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanks to a Paul Waner triple and a sacrifice fly, the Houston Hoots carried a 2-1 lead into the 8th in what was a pitcher’s duel between Chicago’s William Bell and Juan Marichal. Marichal hit Joey Votto to lead off the 8th, and after Albert Pujols doubled, Sammy Sosa hit a 2-run single to put the Docs on top. Jeff Bagwell and Willie Stargell hit back-to-back doubles to even things up heading into the 9th. Houston’s Warren Spahn got two quick outs before allowing singles to Troy Tulowitzki and Votto. Buster Posey followed with a 3-run home run. Tug McGraw came in to close things out, but allowed three straight hits and a sac fly to cut the lead to 6-5. Pujols bobbled a Richie Ashburn grounder to put the tying run on 2nd. But Waner grounded right to Chase Utley for a textbook double play to end the game. The loss has Houston clinging to a 1 1\/2-game lead in the National League race. Pujols finished 4 for 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to a Paul Waner triple and a sacrifice fly, the Houston Hoots carried a 2-1 lead into the 8th in what was a pitcher’s duel between Chicago’s William Bell and Juan Marichal. Marichal hit Joey Votto to lead off the 8th, and after Albert Pujols doubled, Sammy Sosa hit a 2-run single to put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pops-s2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}